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Report of public physicians on a girl injured in a house collapse TM 20714Oxyrhynchos25. Juli - 23. Aug. 325

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A medical report by four public physicians of Oxyrhynchus to the city's logistes, Flavius Leukadios. At his order, following a petition by Aurelius Dioskoros, they examined his daughter, injured when his house collapsed, and found abrasions and bruises on her hips and a wound on her right knee. It dates to Mesore (late July to August) AD 325.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Paulinus and Julianus, the most illustrious […] To Flavius Leukadios, logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Theoninus and Heron and Didymos and Silvanus, public physicians of the illustrious and most illustrious city of the Oxyrhynchites. We were instructed by your grace, on the basis of a petition submitted to you by Aurelius Dioskoros son of Dorotheos, of the same city, to report in writing on the condition of his daughter, as he alleged, resulting from the collapse that occurred of his house. Therefore, having gone to his house, we saw the child having abrasions on the hips with bruises and a wound of the right knee. Wherefore we make this report. In the aforesaid consulship, Mesore […]

The logistes (curator civitatis) was the chief financial and administrative official of the city. The names of the first two physicians are restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of Public Physicians). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 25. Juli - 23. Aug. 325 · Oxyrhynchos

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